<VV> CORSA CONVENTION not family oriented

[George Jones]

Lesson to be learned here. I know my wife usually brings her sewing with
her. When I check in on her occasionally, there are usually 4 or 5 ladies
hanging around her trying to learn or exchange ideas. They've even been
known to go off together to hit an antique mall or fabric store, etc. Not
part of the planned agenda, but it always seems to be well received.

I know that CORSA tries to make sure that the focus stays on the cars, but
there's no harm in planning tours for the ladies. Something the BOD should
consider.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Kenneth E Pepke <kenpepke at juno.com> wrote:

> said [in part]:
>
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:57:14 -0400 "George Jones" <65crownv8 at gmail.com>
> writes:
> > I believe logic can provide that answer Dennis. CORSA is a family
> > oriented
> > car club, and families usually include children. For the most part,
> > family
> > vacation scheduling dictates that if you want families to attend,
> > the
> > convention needs to be held between mid June and Mid August, when
> > most
> > children wouldn't need to be pulled out of school to attend.
> >
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Past experience tells me that CORSA is as far from being 'family
> orientated' as any of the National organizations I have known.  At
> the end of the DC convention my wife, a woman who always said
> yes to going anywhere at anytime, was so bored she said she
> did not want to go to another CORSA convention ... and we didn't.  I
> had noticed that there was nothing planned in any CORSA convention
> to entertain the women that came along but had no real interest in the
> car activities.
>
> Sharon had long since passed away when the National convention
> was to be held in the Detroit area.  Remembering the talks we had I
> planed to 'do something different.'  Special activities for the women!
> CORSA's response was a flat out NO!  After much argument and
> only after CORSA was assured there would be NO cost to them did
> they allow these activities.  It took another long drawn out fight to get
> them to allow the activities to be included in the published schedule
> and to get them in the Communique.
>
> During the course of the Detroit convention 'Mr. H' stopped by the
> Hospitality area.  Having noticed that the designated room was
> empty he said "Ken, how are the women's activities doing?'
>
> 'Quite well,' I said, 'there are 47 of them meeting in the bigger room
> next door!'
>
> 'That is a significant number,' he said.
>
> Twenty years of conventions and nobody had noticed all those
> ladies.  Not the only reason but I believe this is a significant factor
> in the decline of CORSA membership over the years when other
> organizations are growing in leaps and bounds.
>
> Of course, my kids didn't care that there was little or nothing for them.
>
> They would spend the time in the pool or hitting dad up for snack
> and game money.
>
> Ken P
> +++++++++++++++++++
>
>
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